their first successful invasion of Ros, had amassed a great spoil, shall be despoiled of their plunder, and themselves become a prey to the avengers of the desolated country.

V. 11. A place of name, &c.]-So the passage is rendered by the Greek translators, and by St. Jerom; and the original admits of this interpretation equally with that in our common version; I will give, GoG a place of burial there: the word □v (sem) signifying both name and there. "Locum

nominatum, sepulchrum." (Hieron.) Toяov ονομασον, "a place of distinguished name."And this dreadful sarcasm is immediately explained; a cemetary or charnel-house, for his multitudinous army sacrificed to his infuriate cupidity and ambition.

Ibid. In the valley, &c.] See note to

verse 15.

Ibid. Wherefore they shall bury ;] i. e. on account of the intolerable stench, arising from so vast a multitude of corrupting carcasses, spread over the face of the land; "for it shall cause the passengers to stop their

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"noses." This version of our translators is received by the Jews, as we learn from David Levi. St. Jerom takes the whole passage thus: "I will give GoGUE a place "of name, a sepulchre, which shall fill with "astonishment those who pass by: :--- quæ obstupescere facit prætereuntes."

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Ibid. They shall call it, &c.]-See ver. 16.

V. 13. Seven months, &c.]-So again at V.14," after seven months they shall still make "search." Here the prophet foretells, that the terrible and unexampled destruction which would overtake the army of nations led on by GOGUE, in their flight from Ros, should cause the land to be so extensively loaded with their dead, that seven months (from the time of their slaughter,) should not suffice for burying all their scattered bones. It is for the Christian world to question itself, whether any such fact has yet been presented to the experience of mankind?

"Your Majesty passed the Niemen with "400,000 men : — But YOUR ARMY, the

"chosen army of FRANCE, of GERMANY, "and of ITALY, exists no more; there bleach "unburied the bones of the brave men who "saved FRANCE at Fleurus, FRENCHMEN "who conquered in Italy, who survived the burning climate of Egypt, and who fixed "victory to your standards at Marengo, and "Austerlitz, Jena, and Friedland." Letter of the CROWN PRINCE of Sweden, to the Emperor Napoleon, 13th March, 1813.

V. 13. It shall be unto them for A RENOWN.]-The overthrow of GOGUE and his host, was foreordained to be a renown to that people which, under GoD, should be employed to bring it to pass; the renown forms an express part of the prediction, and it was therefore provided for them in the purposes of the Almighty. It is thus, that the illustrious Emperor of Ros consigned that RENOWN to his own valiant and faithful armies, after the close of the year 1812.

"Soldiers! That year is gone! That "memorable and glorious year, in which

"noses." This version of our translators i received by the Jews, as we learn from David Levi. St. Jerom takes the whol passage thus: "I will give GoGUE a place "of name, a sepulchre, which shall fill with "astonishment those who pass by:-qua "obstupescere facit prætereuntes."

Ibid. They shall call it, &c.]—See ver. 16.

V. 13. Seven months, &c.]-So again at V.14," after seven months they shall still make "search." Here the prophet foretells, that the terrible and unexampled destruction which would overtake the army of nations led on by GOGUE, in their flight from Ros, should cause the land to be so extensively loaded with their dead, that seven months (from the time of their slaughter,) should not suffice for burying all their scattered bones. It is for the Christian world to question itself, whether any such fact has yet been presented to the experience of mankind?

"Your Majesty passed the Niemen with "400,000 men: But YOUR ARMY, the